Department of Agricultural Extension Education
This is fully an unoffical page for the Department of Agricultural Extension Education.
The information are mostly taken from the Annual Report 1993-1995, and Pocket Diary-1997,
Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh.
As on of the integral part of the Faculty of Agriculture, Bangladesh Agricultural
University, this Department initially in the name of Agricultural Extension and Teachers'
Training was established in 1964 with a purpose to offer Agricultural Extension courses
to both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as to provide training
to the teachers of neighboring High Schools in different aspects of agriculture.
The department at present offers Agricultural Extension courses to undergraduate
levels in all the six Faculties of the BAU. This department, however, offers courses
in 2nd, 3rd and 4th years in the Faculty of Agriculture. Masters as well as Ph.D. degrees
are also offered from this department. So far five students got their Ph.D. degrees and
a quite good number of students who got their M. Sc. (Ag.Ext. Ed.)/MS degrees from this
department. Three more Ph.D. research works are now in progress.
Apart from teaching and research this department is also involved in rural development
activities since 1966. The department initially started its activities on different
aspects of socio-economic and home life improvement of the farmers in three villages -
Kazirshimla, Dulalbari, and Baroigram of the Trishal Thana (lowest administrative unit)
of Mymensingh district. The project was named as the "Agri-varsity Extension Project
(AEP)" in 1977.
In order to provide training to the passed out agricultural graduates as well as other
officers of different nation building organizations this Department also created
"Graduate Training Institute (GTI) " in 1976. The AEP was renamed as the "Bangladesh
Agricultural University Extension Centre (BAUEC) in 1989. However, the GTI and the
BAUEC have now become independent insitute and centre respectively with their own
statutes. The BAUEC is now working on different aspects of rural social development
in 22 neighboring villages of the BAU.
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